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Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. -- James Cash Penney
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. -- Emile Durkheim
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. -- John Ruskin
The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces. -- Paul Halmos
Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable? -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them. -- Karl Kraus
Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless. -- Saadi
One joins the movement in a valueless world, Choosing it, till both hurler and the hurled, One moves as well, always toward, toward. -- Thom Gunn
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless. -- Oscar Wilde
Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves. -- G. M. Trevelyan
From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. -- Emile Durkheim
I think chemistry is being frittered away by the hairsplitting of the organic chemists; we have new compounds discovered, which scarcely differ from the known ones and when discovered are valueless-very illustrations perhaps of their refinements in analysis, but very little aiding the progress of true science. -- Michael Faraday
At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost its humanness. Love is the Supreme human value. Truth, righteousness, peace and non-violence are other human values. Knowing these values, men are foolishly leading valueless lives. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country that they cannot tolerate negligence. Officers who fail to correct errors or to praise excellence are valueless in peace and dangerous misfits in war. -- George S. Patton
This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death. -- Robert Bolt
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless. -- Marsha Sinetar
Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last. -- H. Rider Haggard
The only step that makes the valuable to become valueless is the negative side of your eyes that you use to see it. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless. -- Michael Frayn
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Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when laziness takes the lead in your daily decisions, your knowledge becomes valueless! -- Israelmore Ayivor
What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time. -- Israelmore Ayivor

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